"Do you really want to be making Apple products better FOR FREE?"
Sure. That's the same with other open source projects like WordPress. I make it better, I benefit from it, if the community likes it they incorporate it in the main line and everyone benefits. Works.
10% is not Many. That's Few. It's not really all that surprising that 10% of the workers are going to fall at the low end of the curve, especially in a low skill type job. Simply looking at the new workers in training would account for that.
"at Amazon would take home about $24,300 a year," CNN reported in 2013. "That's less than $1,000 above the official federal poverty line for a family of four."
That's a typical bad statistic. If you have a family of four it is typically including two adults. They both have the option of working. So if both are working and getting $24,300 that means a household income of $48,600 which is quite respectable. Heck, $24,300 is very good to be honest. Realize that a lot of people who are at the lower end of the wage tier are NOT FAMILIES OF FOUR. And if you're not a family of four you don't have the expenses of a family of four. You can SHARE an apartment, live frugally, etc. I do.
People earn what they earn primarily because of choices they make. Sometimes they do have bad luck and we have social safety nets, like food stamps, that help with this. It's not a crisis.
If Tim Cook thinks merging iOS and MacOS would result in compromises then he lacks imagination and should not be leading Apple.
Done properly the software could make the best use of what ever hardware it finds itself running on so the user gets to pick and choose how and where they want to use it. I'm a user and a programmer, for 40 years, so I speak from a bit of experience and I apparently have a lot more imagination than Tim Cook. If he can't imagine better things then he needs to get out of the way of people who can.
Disclaimer: I farm. For real. Not iFarm gaming but rather I farm as in I do the real thing growing plants and animals which I deliver to customers year round.
I bought land in the cheapest area that was reasonably close to my markets.
I get free energy from the sun which shines down on us.
I get free fertilizer from the air.
I get free water from the sky and don't even have to use pumps.
I get free growth medium.
Now let's examine the proposed vertical city farms where they're going to use:
Expensive real estate paying high taxes;
Expensive electricity to provide light which is expensive for both the bulbs and the electricity and the labor of maintenance;
Expensive synthetic fertilizers to feed their crops;
Expensive pumps and piping to move the water they buy up their tower; and
Expensive growth mediums or hydroponic systems to grow their crops in.
But wait! It gets worse for them! They're going to produce cheap, low value, low nutrition, commodity crops which they'll get bottom dollar for. What a great way to turn a million dollars into nothing. Big lose.
I on the other hand produce a high end niche meat product where I do vertical integration controlling my feeds, livestock genetics, breeding, raising all on on pasture, then processing in my own on-farm USDA inspected butcher shop and delivered directly to my customers weekly with my own delivery service. I make top dollar.
Vertical farms have been proposed for cities for a long time, the last half century at least. But, they have never translated into the real world for real profitable farming. If it isn't profitable then it isn't sustainable.
...In the next stage the system uses the phenotype information shown in the video combined with the 99.9999% shared genetic information between all humans to create a nearly exact genome for the person....In the final step the AI system uses your likes, preferences, cookie trails and other information gleaned from your online life to fill in the life experience portion and recreate your personality.
This all allows the marketers to then pinpoint your exact weaknesses to advertising so that you BUY, BUY, BUY, BUY!!!!
No, you misunderstand. What you're saying isn't how the security questions work in almost all cases. There are rare places that are using systems like you say - and they're often wrong data.
So I have this silver hammer that has worked nicely for years. Then my post office raised the first class stamp rate and declared that my hammers won't work anymore.
This is arbitrary and pernicious. There is no good reason that Apple doesn't offer backward compatibility. They have the computing power in all of their devices. They have the expertise. There is a lot of very useful software that is not going to get upgraded because the developers don't exist anymore.
By doing this Apple forces people not to upgrade their OS which means more security flaw problems.
By doing this Apple forces people to not upgrade their hardware which means lost sales to Apple.
My solution, and many people's solution, is to simply hang on to older machines. The reality is the newer machines are not all that more impressive so there is no push for me to upgrade my hardware or OS. I have work to be done and when Apple threatens to take away my needed tools they just get snubbed.
Selling your name, address, phone, answers to survey questions and such were standard operating procedures for magazines and other membership organizations for centuries. Yes, literally.
You didn't really think your paltry magazine subscription price paid for the magazine did you? Even the ads weren't enough. Magazines have traditionally made money by selling your information. This is exactly what Facebook does - but FB does it far better.
You're not paying for the service in cash so you pay another way.
Relax and lie a little. Don't give out your details if you don't want to or give misleading information. They'll still glean info but what's the real deal?
Honestly, I don't even tell the bank the real answers to these dumb questions. The reason is quite simple: someone could research and find the answers. Far better to just make up a set of answers to these sorts of things. Even multiple sets for different institutions. That's what I do. They have no business knowing details and they have proven they can't keep secrets.
Actually, I do have kids. And we have Apple Macs and iOS devices. My kids are respectful and don't smash stuff. I homeschooled all of them as well. Perhaps there's the problem, public schools and parents who fail to teach their kids the first three R's: Respect, Responsibility and appReciation.
The real question is not how difficult it is to repair but does it need repairing. If you're used to things that break down a lot then you think along the lines of repairing. But if something is built right it doesn't break much so repairability is a minor issue. Things should be built right and real world tough.
Yes, I'm well aware of what it is called. The difference is, I can learn from Mother Nature and improve on her methods. She sometimes goes overboard and kills the patient with the remedy (too high a fever).
I'm not against antibiotics (anti-antibiotic) but there are other ways of killing off bacteria. One we use on our farm is heat.
We raise pigs out on pastureâ and as such I tend toward avoiding antibiotics unless proscribed by a vet to cure a particular problem in a particular pig. Since a vet an a course of antibiotics costs so much that virtually never happens.
All bacteria are susceptible to overheating. Death by hot tub we call it. The trick is that animals, like you and I as well as pigs, are also killed by overheating. But, there is a zone where you can turn the tide of the war between the animal's immune system and the invaders by applying heat. With pigs that are small enough we literally hot tub them, that is to say in a bucket of warm water carefully monitoring them and saving their lives without resorting to drugs.
I use the same sort of thing on myself for cuts and it is ver effective.
This is not to say I won't go to the doctor and get antibiotics as needed, just that there are alternatives to drugs. More thought needs to be put into that.
âYes, pigs do eat grass but pasture is also a lot of other forages like clovers, etc. People all too often get stuck on "pigs aren't cows and can't eat grass" which is incorrect.
It doesn't require heating or cooling, no fire needed, to stay above freezing (in the 40'sF) in our very cold climate. With a very small fire it is easily boosted to the 70'sF. So no artificial heating or cooling are required. A small fire is an option. We only use 0.75 cord of wood for those fires which is a tiny amount in our climate. It's almost all deadwood, lying around free for the picking up off the ground.
I'm not selling the idea. You can use it free of charge. It's very simple. Insulated thermal mass. Control the energy flow on the annual cycle.
"Promising free shit to the young, stupid, and lazy worked out so great for Bernie, didn't it?"
That's a very interesting and excellent example. Bernie easily would have beat Trump.
Bernie did not lose to Hitlery - she played dirty pulling the woman card and IOUs. In the process she shafted the Democratic party causing them to lose to Trump (who is not a Republican but an Opportunist) in the end.
So without Clinton's dirty politics against her own party you would now be saying just how well it did indeed work for Bernie.
"fix the goddamned economy so people can earn a decent living instead!"
People already can earn a decent living. Be self-employed. Provide a service or product people need. Market it well. Fill a niche. Make money. Not fast but steadily. It works. Just about anyone can do this. Out in rural areas a very high percentage of the population is self-employed which proves the point.
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"Do you really want to be making Apple products better FOR FREE?"
Sure. That's the same with other open source projects like WordPress. I make it better, I benefit from it, if the community likes it they incorporate it in the main line and everyone benefits. Works.
10% is not Many. That's Few. It's not really all that surprising that 10% of the workers are going to fall at the low end of the curve, especially in a low skill type job. Simply looking at the new workers in training would account for that.
"at Amazon would take home about $24,300 a year," CNN reported in 2013. "That's less than $1,000 above the official federal poverty line for a family of four."
That's a typical bad statistic. If you have a family of four it is typically including two adults. They both have the option of working. So if both are working and getting $24,300 that means a household income of $48,600 which is quite respectable. Heck, $24,300 is very good to be honest. Realize that a lot of people who are at the lower end of the wage tier are NOT FAMILIES OF FOUR. And if you're not a family of four you don't have the expenses of a family of four. You can SHARE an apartment, live frugally, etc. I do.
People earn what they earn primarily because of choices they make. Sometimes they do have bad luck and we have social safety nets, like food stamps, that help with this. It's not a crisis.
If Tim Cook thinks merging iOS and MacOS would result in compromises then he lacks imagination and should not be leading Apple.
Done properly the software could make the best use of what ever hardware it finds itself running on so the user gets to pick and choose how and where they want to use it. I'm a user and a programmer, for 40 years, so I speak from a bit of experience and I apparently have a lot more imagination than Tim Cook. If he can't imagine better things then he needs to get out of the way of people who can.
I just had this problem when installing Sierra (not High Sierra) on a MacBook Pro. This problem may be more wide spread than they think.
"Professional Help" is provided free as part of his state backed health care. Observe where he is located before you make false statements.
"How "FREE" are you to leave when you have little-to-none job skills"
That issue is his fault, not Amazon's.
The "professional" help is free under his state mandated health care.
"He described the work culture as a prison"
If he think's it is prison then he has no concept of prison. He is free to leave any time. Poor man's deluded and should seek professional help.
Elon Musk has been warning everyone that AI would be dangerous. Perhaps it will be for him but not in the way he envisioned.
Disclaimer: I farm. For real. Not iFarm gaming but rather I farm as in I do the real thing growing plants and animals which I deliver to customers year round.
I bought land in the cheapest area that was reasonably close to my markets.
I get free energy from the sun which shines down on us.
I get free fertilizer from the air.
I get free water from the sky and don't even have to use pumps.
I get free growth medium.
Now let's examine the proposed vertical city farms where they're going to use:
Expensive real estate paying high taxes;
Expensive electricity to provide light which is expensive for both the bulbs and the electricity and the labor of maintenance;
Expensive synthetic fertilizers to feed their crops;
Expensive pumps and piping to move the water they buy up their tower; and
Expensive growth mediums or hydroponic systems to grow their crops in.
But wait! It gets worse for them! They're going to produce cheap, low value, low nutrition, commodity crops which they'll get bottom dollar for. What a great way to turn a million dollars into nothing. Big lose.
I on the other hand produce a high end niche meat product where I do vertical integration controlling my feeds, livestock genetics, breeding, raising all on on pasture, then processing in my own on-farm USDA inspected butcher shop and delivered directly to my customers weekly with my own delivery service. I make top dollar.
Vertical farms have been proposed for cities for a long time, the last half century at least. But, they have never translated into the real world for real profitable farming. If it isn't profitable then it isn't sustainable.
...In the next stage the system uses the phenotype information shown in the video combined with the 99.9999% shared genetic information between all humans to create a nearly exact genome for the person. ...In the final step the AI system uses your likes, preferences, cookie trails and other information gleaned from your online life to fill in the life experience portion and recreate your personality.
This all allows the marketers to then pinpoint your exact weaknesses to advertising so that you BUY, BUY, BUY, BUY!!!!
Make an algorithm - It's easy.
No, you misunderstand. What you're saying isn't how the security questions work in almost all cases. There are rare places that are using systems like you say - and they're often wrong data.
So I have this silver hammer that has worked nicely for years. Then my post office raised the first class stamp rate and declared that my hammers won't work anymore.
This is arbitrary and pernicious. There is no good reason that Apple doesn't offer backward compatibility. They have the computing power in all of their devices. They have the expertise. There is a lot of very useful software that is not going to get upgraded because the developers don't exist anymore.
By doing this Apple forces people not to upgrade their OS which means more security flaw problems.
By doing this Apple forces people to not upgrade their hardware which means lost sales to Apple.
My solution, and many people's solution, is to simply hang on to older machines. The reality is the newer machines are not all that more impressive so there is no push for me to upgrade my hardware or OS. I have work to be done and when Apple threatens to take away my needed tools they just get snubbed.
News Flash!
Selling your name, address, phone, answers to survey questions and such were standard operating procedures for magazines and other membership organizations for centuries. Yes, literally.
You didn't really think your paltry magazine subscription price paid for the magazine did you? Even the ads weren't enough. Magazines have traditionally made money by selling your information. This is exactly what Facebook does - but FB does it far better.
You're not paying for the service in cash so you pay another way.
Relax and lie a little. Don't give out your details if you don't want to or give misleading information. They'll still glean info but what's the real deal?
Honestly, I don't even tell the bank the real answers to these dumb questions. The reason is quite simple: someone could research and find the answers. Far better to just make up a set of answers to these sorts of things. Even multiple sets for different institutions. That's what I do. They have no business knowing details and they have proven they can't keep secrets.
Actually, I do have kids. And we have Apple Macs and iOS devices. My kids are respectful and don't smash stuff. I homeschooled all of them as well. Perhaps there's the problem, public schools and parents who fail to teach their kids the first three R's: Respect, Responsibility and appReciation.
Fix the right problem.
The real question is not how difficult it is to repair but does it need repairing. If you're used to things that break down a lot then you think along the lines of repairing. But if something is built right it doesn't break much so repairability is a minor issue. Things should be built right and real world tough.
Yes, I'm well aware of what it is called. The difference is, I can learn from Mother Nature and improve on her methods. She sometimes goes overboard and kills the patient with the remedy (too high a fever).
I'm not against antibiotics (anti-antibiotic) but there are other ways of killing off bacteria. One we use on our farm is heat.
We raise pigs out on pastureâ and as such I tend toward avoiding antibiotics unless proscribed by a vet to cure a particular problem in a particular pig. Since a vet an a course of antibiotics costs so much that virtually never happens.
All bacteria are susceptible to overheating. Death by hot tub we call it. The trick is that animals, like you and I as well as pigs, are also killed by overheating. But, there is a zone where you can turn the tide of the war between the animal's immune system and the invaders by applying heat. With pigs that are small enough we literally hot tub them, that is to say in a bucket of warm water carefully monitoring them and saving their lives without resorting to drugs.
I use the same sort of thing on myself for cuts and it is ver effective.
This is not to say I won't go to the doctor and get antibiotics as needed, just that there are alternatives to drugs. More thought needs to be put into that.
âYes, pigs do eat grass but pasture is also a lot of other forages like clovers, etc. People all too often get stuck on "pigs aren't cows and can't eat grass" which is incorrect.
Some of us work better on other schedules. Mandating things like this is a bad idea based on bad data from baaad sheep.
It doesn't require heating or cooling, no fire needed, to stay above freezing (in the 40'sF) in our very cold climate. With a very small fire it is easily boosted to the 70'sF. So no artificial heating or cooling are required. A small fire is an option. We only use 0.75 cord of wood for those fires which is a tiny amount in our climate. It's almost all deadwood, lying around free for the picking up off the ground.
I'm not selling the idea. You can use it free of charge. It's very simple. Insulated thermal mass. Control the energy flow on the annual cycle.
Enjoy.
Not really. Most people do it small and slowly. This minimizes the risk.
"Promising free shit to the young, stupid, and lazy worked out so great for Bernie, didn't it?"
That's a very interesting and excellent example.
Bernie easily would have beat Trump.
Bernie did not lose to Hitlery - she played dirty pulling the woman card and IOUs. In the process she shafted the Democratic party causing them to lose to Trump (who is not a Republican but an Opportunist) in the end.
So without Clinton's dirty politics against her own party you would now be saying just how well it did indeed work for Bernie.
"fix the goddamned economy so people can earn a decent living instead!"
People already can earn a decent living.
Be self-employed.
Provide a service or product people need.
Market it well.
Fill a niche.
Make money.
Not fast but steadily.
It works.
Just about anyone can do this.
Out in rural areas a very high percentage of the population is self-employed which proves the point.